Corporate crime
It heartens me a bit to see this sort of reaction to corporate crime:
… It's time this kind of crime is seen for what it is. It's worse than drug-dealing, loan sharking, prostitution, gambling -- everything the Mafia specializes in. In those crimes the victims usually come to criminals with eyes wide-open. That's not true for corporate crime.
How many great ideas won't be funded because of corporate crime? How many jobs won't be created because of corporate crime? How many honest careers were killed by Enron, Worldcom, and on and on?
Corporate crime is not victimless. Corporate crime has more victims, more unwitting, innocent victims, than any other kind of crime.
… I want every CEO to be capable of waking up, screaming, hearing the voice of an evil, large, sweaty cellmate saying "You got a purty mouth."
All right, that last was a bit over the top.
Corporate crime is the theft that keeps on taking. On an Enron scale it doesn't just take your money now, it
distorts the economy, so that you wind up paying more forever.
posted by Prometheus 6 at 5/2/2003 11:14:18 AM |
Posted by P6 at May 2, 2003 11:14 AM
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